Dead grandma qualifies for picture phone! Yay!

[Nephy]

So last month my grandmother suddenly dies, and I go home to Minnesota.

A few days latter, I'm chilling at grandma's house, and the phone rings.

EW = Evil woman from Sprint
Me = Normally very lovely young lady who happens to be dealing with the death of her grandmother, idiotic and overly dramatic family, and being in a state she fled for a reason.

*ring*
Me: (already a wee bit grumpy) Hello?
EW: Hello and how are you?
Me: Not all that great.
EW: Well that's great and fabulous! *pause* Darline (dead grandma), I'm calling from Sprint to inform you that you are eligible to upgrade to a camera phone!
Me: The woman you are calling for, my grandmother, just died a few days ago.
EW: *Without skipping a beat* Well she's still eligible!
Me: what the frak? I just told you she's dead! She's not interested!
EW: *Cheery* Well you might be eligible to upgrade!
Me: *Very loudly and angrily* I just told you my grandmother died, I'm not exactly interested in discussing a camera phone!
EW: *huffy* Well you don't need to get all upset about it!
Me: *Screaming at this point* F*** You Lady! *slams phone*


Why on Earth would that woman think that conducting that call that way was going to end in a sale?

The kicker, my grandma didn't even have a Sprint phone.

[Soulstealer]

Me: The woman you are calling for, my grandmother, just died a few days ago.
EW: *Without skipping a beat* Well she's still eligible!

See that's when the proper response would've been "I'm sorry for your loss, my condolences." and hang up.

[Broomjockey]

Sorry for your loss
And yeah, class A royal jack-ass on the phone there. Now, my snarky nature would have certainly gotten the better of me after the "still eligible" bit, and I'd have come out with a line like "Yeah, but I hear the long-distance plan to the Afterlife sucks," just see if I can make them understand the sheer idiocy of what they're trying.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Me: *Screaming at this point* F*** You Lady! *slams phone*

Given the caller's absolute cluelessness and refusal to take "no" for an answer, that is about the most appropriate response I can think of. I can't imagine being sugary nice and polite if a person very close to me dies and somebody calls wanting to sell them something.

[edible_hat]

I bet the caller was from one of those call centers where people get fired for not making X amount of sales per hour, and was under pressure because of that and just didn't think.

but then again she could have just been an insensitive idiot.

[Becks]

First off, my condolences, Nephy. :comforting pats: there, there™®©


Honestly, some people just don't listen, and they deserve whatever response they get. Holy biscuit.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Me: The woman you are calling for, my grandmother, just died a few days ago.
EW: *Without skipping a beat* Well she's still eligible!

..... *steps back, squints* ........... *turns upside-down, looks again* ......... *nose suddenly starts shooting blood, must run for toilet paper* ........... *comes back, looks again*........ *looks through toilet paper roll* ..........*mops up more blood* ............

Okay...I'll go with "WTF" for $200, Alex.

[ditchdj]

Carved-in-stone rule about American Capitalism....

The ONLY death that shall be mourned shall be the death of the dollar.

[Kogarashi]

::hugs:: Sorry for your loss.

::shakes finger at Sprint saleswoman:: Bad Sprint lady! No tarnishing my opinion of your company! Go sit in the corner!

[BookstoreEscapee]

I'm sorry about your grandmother.

My grandmother passed away 6 years ago in August. She still gets mail.

And when she lived with us we had to go through this whole rigmarole to get her non-driver ID card (had to do with her being wrongly listed as having had her license suspended...30 years ago, when she gave it up for medical reasons). Since she died, she has gotten the renewal paperwork twice, my dad has sent it back twice with the words "deceased, August XX, 2001", and she has gotten a new ID sent to her. Twice.

[justZu]

I, too am sorry for your loss, Nephy.

My grandmother passed away 6 years ago in August. She still gets mail.

MY father-in-law has been gone for sixteen years and we still get mail for him. The weirdest is some life insurance company who keeps offering him a second chance(to buy coverage). Yeah, I was definitely weirded out the first time one of those came in the mail!

[Nephy]

Now, my snarky nature would have certainly gotten the better of me after the "still eligible" bit, and I'd have come out with a line like "Yeah, but I hear the long-distance plan to the Afterlife sucks," just see if I can make them understand the sheer idiocy of what they're trying.

Lmao, now I wish I had been in a snarky-type mood. *pouts over missed oportunity*

My uncle is determined to be buried with a pre-paid cellphone, just in case the embalming "doesn't take".

Although he did temporarily change his wishes to being cremated and put in one of the urns that resembles a cookie jar... with cookies included of course.

Thank you for the condolences everyone *hugs back*

[Becks]

My uncle is determined to be buried with a pre-paid cellphone, just in case the embalming "doesn't take".

Although he did temporarily change his wishes to being cremated and put in one of the urns that resembles a cookie jar... with cookies included of course.

Interesting ideas. May I keep them in mind for myself when the time comes?

[MadMike]

Wow.

I'm not one to defend telemarketers, and when I first started reading, I was thinking that maybe calling her "evil" was a bit over the top. After all, how could she have known that your grandmother had died.

However, once she kept pushing the sale after you told her, twice no less, I'd say she had it coming.

[KellyHabersham]

a bit off topic this is, but......once my mom got a telemarketing call for one of her cats.